US 12,394,305 B2
Vehicles, methods, computer programs, and apparatuses for resolving a deadlock traffic situation of an automatically operated vehicle
Israel Gonzalez Vazquez, Wolfsburg (DE); Andreas Pfadler, Berlin (DE); Guillaume Jornod, Berlin (DE); and Andreas Kwoczek, Lehre (DE)
Assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, (DE)
Filed by VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/464,349.
Claims priority of application No. 20195050 (EP), filed on Sep. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0076567 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/01 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC G08G 1/0145 (2013.01) [B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G08G 1/0133 (2013.01); G08G 1/0141 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for resolving a deadlock traffic situation of a transportation vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
one or more interfaces to communicate in a communication network; and
a control module to control the one or more interfaces, wherein the control module is configured to control the apparatus to resolve the deadlock traffic situation by:
detecting the deadlock traffic situation,
reporting the deadlock traffic situation to a control center,
entering a tele-operated driving session in coordination with the control center at a starting point, which is a physical location of the transportation vehicle at a temporal point, wherein the entering is performed in response to the detection of the deadlock traffic situation,
determining reference location information for the starting point of the tele-operated driving session, wherein the reference location information includes relative or absolute location information that enables other transportation vehicles to locate the starting point of the tele-operated driving session for resolving the deadlock traffic situation,
transmitting tele-operated driving session information including the reference location information for the tele-operated driving session to the other transportation vehicles to create a physical queue based on the starting point so as to provide instructions for the other transportation vehicles to physically queue based on the starting point, and receive tele-operating driving assistance from the control center to resolve the deadlock traffic situation, and
resolving the deadlock traffic situation, by the transportation vehicle, in the tele-operated driving session.